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Android vs iPhone - Market Share

My attempt to keep up with some of the latest stats related to the mobile space.

Market Share (Source: Nielson, August 2011)


Number of Installed Devices

Sources: Apple Keynote October 4, 2011, Google CEO Larry Page, Google Earnings Call October 13, 2011



Apple App Store

Apple has 500,000 apps in the App Store. Of which 140,000 are specific to the iPad - Source: Apple Keynote, October 4, 2011



Latest News (Source: WSJ, October 10, 2011)

  • Preorders for Apple’s iPhone 4S topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single-day preorder record of 600,000 set by the iPhone 4.
  • iPhone has a 5% share of the world-wide market share of all mobile phones.
  • 93% of Fortune 500 companies are testing or deploying the iPhone.
  • 18 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store.  Current rate of downloads are at 1 billion per month.
  • 74% of all tablets sold in the United States are iPads.